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Ronald Hands wrote:

poldy wrote:


I like flaneur (there should be a circonflexe over the a).

Edmund White wrote an enjoyable book titled The Flaneur: a
stroll through the paradoxes of Paris (Bloomsbury, 2001).
The woman who wrote the Letter from Paris for the New Yorker
magazine for many years chose the pen name Janet Flanner, which
many suspected was a tribute to "flâneur". I think Walter
Benjamin also wrote an essay defining the breed.
I like the word, too.

-- Ron

I got the word from Benjamin.